Hat-pin retainer



(No Model) M. J. GUTHRIE. HAT PIN RETAINER.

No. 584,548. Patented June-15, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTHA J. GUTHRIE, OF WIOHITA, KANSAS.

HAT-PIN RETAIN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,548, dated June 15, 1897.

Application filed May 23,1896. Serial N0. 592,691. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTHA J. GUTHRIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at VVichita,in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pin Retainers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledvin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to hatretainers for ladies hats.

My object is to provide a cheap, simple, and easily-applied device which will be adapted to retain the hat-pins and thus obviate the necessity of perforating the hat with said hatpins.

Having the foregoing objects in view, the invention consists of a hat-pin retainer made from a single piece of wire bent into peculiar form, as will appear more fullyin the following description and appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a detail view of my improved retainer, and Fig. 2 a view showing it applied to a ladys hat.

The retainer is preferably constructed of a piece of wire A, which is bent into two lower loops 1 and 2, and has its ends bent into upper eyes 3 and 4. The upper eyes 3 and 4:

are sewed to the hat B and may be covered by the lining O of the latter, thus leaving the lower loops 1 and 2 projecting downward. As many of these retainers can be employed as found desirable and situated at different portions of the hat.

When the hat is on the head, any preferred style of hat-pins or hair-pins can be inserted through the lower loops and into the hair, thereby holding the hat firmly yet easily in position.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- As a new article of manufacture, a hat-pin retainer made from a single piece of wire which has its end portions first bent inwardly toward each other, then crossed over the body of the retainer to provide lower loops or eyes adapted to receive hat-pins, and has its extremities then bent upwardly and inwardly to form upper loops or eyes adapted to be secured to the hat of the wearer.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTHA J. GUTHRIE.

WVitnesses:

BERTHA SOHMELZER, FLORENCE GUTHRIE. 

